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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's always been a "neighborhood" school in that only kids in certain neighborhoods have the privilege of attending.  Now, the county wants to make it a neighborhood school and actually allow people in the neighborhood where it resides to attend.  Those who will be displaced (and have given the school a lot of money for their lab) are pissed.[/quote]

Well, you know, think of it as a contribution for the greater good.  [/quote]

PP seems really bent out of shape that they couldn't attend ASFS which was 'in their neighborhood' -- but does realize none of the parents who contributed are being displaced? They are all grandfathered.

Are folks who live by ATS, HB, Key equally bent out of shape about not attending the school in their 'neighborhood'. [b]It's not like ASFS admittance was a surprise unless they bought their house when it was still Page. [/b]

A lot of drama would have been avoided if county had simply provided a non-immersion, plain Jane vanilla neighborhood school for Key zone. [/quote]

Simply not true. ASFS was Page 20+ years ago.  When many people in the Taylor and Jamestown boundaries bought their homes, winning the lottery for ASFS was, while not guaranteed, certainly a very real possibility. And considering ASFS is located in the Taylor boundaries and is actually closer for many families than Taylor, completely fair for those Taylor families to have hoped their kids would attend ASFS. The same cannot be said for ATS or HB whose admissions process has always been county wide lottery.[/quote]

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